So if these fans aren’t AI-generated fakes, what’s going on here?
The video features real performances and real audiences, but I believe they were manipulated on two levels:
- Will Smith’s team generated several short AI image-to-video clips from professionally-shot audience photos
- YouTube post-processed the resulting Shorts montage, making everything look so much worse
Technology
What Are OKLCH Colors?
jakub.krOKLCH is a newer color model that is designed to be perceptually uniform. This means that colors are much more accurate in terms of how humans perceive them and it makes working with them much easier.
Thomas Doyle
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font-size-adjust Is Useful
matklad.github.io…this is where font-size-adjust comes in. If I specify
font-size-adjust: ex-height 0.5,I ask the browser to scale the font such that the letter “x” is exactly half of the box. This makes the fonts comparable…
Fulcrum X1
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…That’s why we created X1, a sleek device that attaches under any watch, turning it into a smart companion. With X1, you get notifications, fitness tracking, and more—all while keeping the watch you already love.
Lorde’s new CD is so transparent that stereos can’t even read it
theverge.comLorde fans are clearly struggling to play the CD version of her new album. Customers who purchased the special edition of Virgin released on a transparent plastic disc are reporting on Reddit and TikTok that many CD players, car stereos, and other sound systems they’ve tried are unable to play it.
GeoCities animated GIF search engine
gifcities.orgCongratulations on creating the one billionth repository on GitHub!
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Pro-AI Subreddit Bans ‘Uptick’ of Users Who Suffer from AI Delusions
404media.co“LLMs [Large language models] today are ego-reinforcing glazing-machines that reinforce unstable and narcissistic personalities,” one of the moderators of r/accelerate, wrote in an announcement. “There is a lot more crazy people than people realise. And AI is rizzing them up in a very unhealthy way at the moment.”
How I shorted $TRUMP coin (and got to have dinner with the President)
theverge.comYes, he did The Big Short, except with Donald Trump’s meme coin. “Bet you 10 percent of dinner participants are doing this,” he told me before the contest ended. “Everyone knows $TRUMP price will fall inevitably as more supply comes online in the future and gets dumped on retail.”
When I spoke to him again after the dinner, he told me that “the majority of people I spoke with, particularly the crypto traders and folks who are very close to the crypto ecosystem, are like, ‘Yeah, I dumped this. I already sold the coin.’”
Internet Roadtrip
neal.funcompost.party
compost.partycompost.party is a repurposed smartphone running on solar power. It’s a web server pieced together from scraps, humming in the attic of an apartment building.
Authors Are Accidentally Leaving AI Prompts In their Novels
404media.coIn the middle of steamy scene between the book’s heroine and the dragon prince Ash there’s this: “I’ve rewritten the passage to align more with J. Bree’s style, which features more tension, gritty undertones, and raw emotional subtext beneath the supernatural elements:”
Boox launches its first color E Ink monitor
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